Red-green Carpet

Red-green Carpet Chloroclysta siterata (Hufnagel, 1767)
Status .....Generally quite a common moth at many sites. Away from the Trent Valley, Red-green Carpet is much more numerous and readily attracted to MV light.
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Photographed at Lound Wood September 2025

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Photographed at Gamston Wood October 2013

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Photographed at Kirton Wood April 2014

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Photographed at Lound Wood March 2011

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Photographed at Lound Wood September 2003		Photographed at Sherwood Forest September 2008


Early stages
Full-grown larva, photographed on Cherry Prunus avium, Clipstone Old Quarter August 2023

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Full-grown larva, photographed on Alder Buckthorn Rhamnus carthatica, Eakring Meadows July 2022.

The records for the Nottinghamshire distribution map are currently provided by the following contributors - Trevor and Dilys Pendleton. Lound Moth Group. Colin Watkin. Graham and Anona Finch. Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust. Phil Lee. David Hursthouse. Sheila Wright (Nottinghamshire macro moth reports 2003-2012). Sean Tobin. Wil Heeney. Tim Sexton. Dave Morton. Andy Ashley. Phil Cadman. Robert and Jill Carlyle. Sherwood Forest Invertebrate Directory 2014. NBGRC. Graham Birkett. Martin Gray. Indy Kiemel and Agnes Kiemel. Steven Chick. Barry Lygo. Charles Cannon. Caron Stubbs (Ransom Wood Moth Trapping Results 2010-2013). Iain Leach, Kate Harte and Paul Baker (Budby South Forest Moth Trapping Results). Tom Shields. Netherfield Wildlife Group. Jason and Lily Reece. Andy Adcock. Graham Beeley. J.T. Radford. Martin Kennewell. Neil Pinder. David Atkinson.

You can contribute your own records to help us gain an accurate status of this species in Nottinghamshire. Send an Excel spreadsheet of your records via the 'contact us' link at the top of the homepage.

Updated March 2025


Nottinghamshire (VC56) distribution of Red-green Carpet